1. Draw your face using only letters. 2. Dip a feather in Indian ink and use the feather as a stamp. 3. My favorite prompt is the one I made with indentations from my scissors and rubbed the pastel over it. It looks interesting how the area of the pastel is light but the lines are shown darker than the rest of the pastel because of how it is filling the crack of the lines. 4. Face made up of dots: Create the entire face with big and spaced out dots. The features shouldn't look exact. Some areas should have more space between the dots than others. 5. For a flat geometric portrait, I used the M India ink pen to draw the portrait itself and then used the B ink pen to shade in the parts I wanted to look darker. The whole portrait cannot have any curved lines. It is only composed of straight lines. You can draw additional lines on your face to represent cheek bones or dimples. 5. Create an entire drawing made of circles 6. My technique was using arrows. You can use different size arrows and face them In different directions. It really gives direction to your face. 7. Draw your face only using squiggly lines. (Your self portrait should have no straight lines present.) 8. Before anything, think about how you feel emotionally. Then, using a pencil, start to draw your face using scribbles. The lines should be drawn fast and in all different sizes. The facial expression on the face should represent how you feel emotionally. Remember it won't look particularly neat because it is made of scribbles. 9. Using cut out paper and brass fasteners, I created a paper figure that represents a ninja which was used to record a stop motion animation. I used an app called Sto Mo which made it extremely simple to form a short film. 10. I like using words to make self portraits. 11. Cross thatching for shading parts of the face, while focusing more on a different angle of my face, rather than just the front. 12. Use the exacto blade to cut out the shape of your head and facial features. 13. My favorite prompt is the one I used with glue and sand to make a self portrait. First, I put glue on the paper in the shape of my face. Then I put sand all over the paper, and put the remaining sand in the trash. 14. For my self portrait that I created I made my face look like an emoji. With my face looking like an emoji it made things look very simple. I picked an emoji that had the best emotion to describe me. 15. I created a comic book version of myself. I visualized what most girls in comic books look like and I drew myself as one of them. 16. Draw a line down the middle of the paper. By doing this it will make it more easier to draw one side of you face upside down and the other side right side up. This technique will help with trying to make your proportions more even. 17. My favorite drawing that I did was the one that I taped my pencil to my nose. 18. Grab 2 different crayons, try and grab "opposite" colors. Draw your face with both crayons in one hand at the same time. Make sure to begin back on the same lines if you picked up your hand and lost your place. 19. iPad self portrait using different layers (such as one layer for color, one for shading, and one for background) and colors. Not all of it has to be colored for example you can color a specific trait such as the eyes, lips, hair, etc. 20. Take a picture using an app like Photo Booth to distort your face and then draw it as shown in the edited image. 21. My favorite prompt was the finger painting where you could only dab because it made it more fun and interesting because it gave it texture. 22. In order to make my favorite prompt is first, draw a big number eight on the paper and then, make your face inside of the number eight. 23. The drawing I chose was, pens only. I used about 50 different pens, using different colors to make it look different. I also took about 30-40 minutes. It has a scratchy look, you could use paints and sharpies, to add more colors. I do not expect all artist to spend the amount of time that I spent, but if you want something amazing, something that may people see things differently. You will have to put in the time, dedicate your self to it, it is your art make it look good. 24. Draw your portrait without erasing- All you need to do is sketch out your portrait and don't erase anything. You can try to fix it, but don't erase anything. 25. Misplace facial features and use a variety of colors 26. Sculpt a doll version of yourself out of clay and create a moving paper doll and make a stop motion animation. 27. My favorite prompt that I made up was the one where you had to make it look stringy. You do this by taking long lines but instead of using normal long lines, you go back and forth while adding a loop every once in a while. 28. Blind-Upside down You close your eyes, really focus on how your face looks upside down and try to draw it. In the end you will get a messy unproportional self portrait. 29. I put small pieces of tape on the paper in the shape of my face and painted over it. When it dried, I peeled the tape off. 30. Hold two pens in one hand at the same time and draw your face to make a blurry figure. 31. I used different colors of crayon to color the background and then I used black crayon to cover the background. Then I use some sharp stuff like a sharp pencil to draw my face on the black crayon and the color behind the black crayon will come up. 32. Caricature: Drawing the proportions of the head larger than normal, making the head bigger than the body at an abnormal size. 33. When I drew, I used only my my pointer finger and thumb to draw. 34. I created the prompt "draw yourself as your pet", I liked this prompt because it allowed me to draw animals, which is nice since I know their anatomy a lot better than humans. I used pencil to create scribbles and later refined the drawing with pens, I then added my distinct features, like hair, freckles etc. This project helped me to discover my weakness and strengths in portraits. 35. Lay a pipe cleaner on paper to make the shape of your face, then trace using a pencil. After that move the pipe cleaner to make more facial features. 36. Use dashes (-) to create a self portrait 37. Found Art- This is just junk piled together and used to configure art. You just need to find random junk and you can put it together and make some type of art. 38. Pixelized Portrait: Draw squares in the shape of a head. Fill in the squares that match the details on your face. 39. First i basically thought of any Sesame Street character, mine being Oscar in the trash can. And putting yourself in that position. Like for instance putting myself in the trash can and recreating the mood Oscar gives off. Like "go away" or "leave me alone" or anything that recreates the mood. I drew it in India ink using the pens, you can use anything but I prefer the India ink pens. And this doesn't have to be Sesame Street characters this can be any cartoon or childhood characters. Even childhood drawings. 40. Create a portrait using only splattered paint. 41. Make a self portrait with a 3 point grip at the opposite end of the pen point with your fingers (thumb, pointer, and middle finger) Hold the pen at a vertical angle while drawing. 42. To make my self portrait, I took something that I loved and created my face out of it. I cut some piano sheet music and made myself out of it. .